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2017-01-16, 14:10
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Regarding AV, Paxxi has given me an idea: I may try excluding the folder Kodi is running in (portable setup) on this machine, or failing that, the entire drive and see if that yields different results.
Will post back if I see anything different.
Strange thing is I've been running 3rd-party AV for a number of years, and never had it interfere with Kodi in the past. But I do know that Windows has had a tendancy to place security restrictions on zip files downloaded from the internet in the past, which have needed manual ''unblocking'' in some cases. I have WinZip installed too, and that needs an update (still on v20), but I disable it's system startup bloat by default.
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[UPDATE]: In my case, it's the Anti-Virus that seems to be the problem.
Temporarily disabled live scanning, wiped the portable settings and tried to set-up again, and everything installed, without error, on the first pass.
I did notice that real-time scanning was set to "All Files". Can't remember whether this was set by default or whether I chose this option. Set it to "Program Files & Documents" instead, and restarted the system to make sure it stuck. Now I'm getting a black screen when I try and install Titan Beta, but I do at least know with Real-time scanning turned completely off, it works as intended. More testing is needed as McAfee's UI isn't the easiest to navigate (i.e: Hide the advanced stuff from the idiot consumer), and I can't, at this time, see any option to turn off or customize on-access scanning.
I did initially try excluding the Kodi install folder from scheduled scans (Including the portable_data folder), this had no effect. It would appear that exclusions in this manner have no effect on what the real-time scanner scans. I pretty much knew that this would probably be so, but tried it just in case.
So at this stage I'm guessing that as the new add-on manager in Kodi creates folders and files as part of the addon extraction process, McAfee / Windows is locking those folders & files in order to perform a scan of the contents, which then blocks Kodi from moving those files & folders to their intended destinations at the time it wishes to do so. This would go someway to explaining why successive retries seems to work (at least in the end). I guess this wasn't an issue in previous Kodi versions, because the addon handling was somewhat different.
The target for me is now finding some middle-ground where both can co-exist without problems and without reducing my system security. Switching to another AV scanner isn't an option.
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Can any one offer some advice,I downloaded RC3 and there were already add on listed in the program i don't know if it comes with it preinstalled or not but anyway every add on i try to install fails,any updates fail,the program then locks
up and i half to reset my PC and start all over and it does the same thing.I have a rather strong desktop and my goal is to stream to tvs in my house.I am still a novice and i had a friend recommend this to me so i have been playing and testing different things.Also are there any repositories that are legitimate and worth placing on the program,i noticed one website had like 30 or more.Last but not least is there a pdf that can help walk thru some of the features
in 17rc3.
Thanks